Dev Tracker - Discussion

I mean, there's a middle ground here. Nickeny probably couldn't do a better job than SE could, but that doesn't mean they're doing an amazing job. Many of their decisions make sense in the context of their constrained budget and technical debt. Many of them don't.

They could absolutely do better if they had someone who genuinely understood and loved the game working on it. Bonus points if that person can also program. But, it's not exactly realistic to expect SE to find that perfect person for a game that's essentially a rounding error on their balance sheet.

Fujito kinda is that guy though, I don't have any doubt he loves FFXI deeply. He's had plenty of time to study under Matsui and Ito and even Tanaka.

I can't say with any proof, but I still have a sneaking feeling he's under Yoshida's thumb for anything and everything.

I mean that's the jist of it.

Any of you think you'd do a "better job". Don't understand ***. Even if you had great ideas, you'd be doing the exact same things, because the suit above you told you to do it.

99% of you would be fired within a month anyway. Not understanding retention and metrics are priority one. XI is an asset first and a game a distant second, maybe third.

one thing you will notice if you look at what's credited to him here, no (or minimal) battle content.

https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Yoji_Fujito

Isn't this the guy who kept posting about his abusive year-long relationship with Bumba now coming back and calling people addicts?

First thing I'd do as the Genius Community manager is to create a Nickeny trust that doesn't do ***like SE has been.

Second, and this is a good one,

Tbh they should just add i119 Abyssea. That's loads of battle content ready to be recycled.

That's it?

That's basically what escha was already


That would have been an option but would so "terribly" nerf the player and their wsd bloat and we cant just do that

So...you think that Sortie was designed specifically for 6-boxers? I wonder where in the world you got that idea.

Frankly, I would say that the reason Limbus sucks so badly is because SE listened to the community, who are a bunch of morons.

They wanted an event that can be done solo, or done with a group up to an alliance. That's what everyone keeps saying: they want to play FFXI solo (because they *** refuse to talk to another human); they also *** that 6-man events are the devil, because they paradoxically have 7-10 friends and can't fit them into their 6-man group.

So SE designed dogshit-level content with no difficulty because, as I've been saying for years, it's basically impossible to make content that is difficult for 1-6 people and also difficult for 18 players. So we end up with this absolute steaming pile of boring, easy, repetitive ***.

Congratulations community, now we have "old school" 18-man content, and you can also solo it! Everyone's happy!

I dont think when SE made Sortie, they built it with the expectation that groups would be doing 8NM+Aminon on a regular basis

So just build alliance content, scale the difficulty for 6-10 players, and let the players figure out the optimal ways.

I do agree with Maletaru that there is a challenge designing content for parties vs. alliances, but historically it happened the other way around. Delve was pretty tough 18man. Then comes delve 2 and 6man groups can clear it trivially. Same for escha/aeonic NMs. Bringing more people is an actual liability because of the extra HP and increased number of people in range of nasty TP moves, which occur more frequently.

Can you not picture the pure chaos of 18man Aminon, or god forbid Gartell, as it is currently done? Much more coordination required and probably harder to recover from big mistakes as well.

Dyna-D works perfectly well as challenging 18man content, btw.

HP scaling is a shitty mechanic because it implies every character has an equal impact on DPS.

If you want to do HP scaling, it should be a smaller increase as you add more.

Generally speaking, everyone present should be there with the goal of increasing the party/alliance's DPS

I don't think any of the latest content had anything really planned out. Seems so okish before the 6-month grind was implemented - now we have round 2 with Limbus. Maybe we deserve this content because we didn't fight back